Immaculate

If you describe something as immaculate, you mean that it is extremely clean, tidy, or neat.

造句：my mom always says Xiao’s room is immaculate so I need to learn from her.

Fish

to use your hand to try to find something

There’s an awkward silence and then she starts fishing through her bag and pulls out her wallet.

I fish a dollar out of my pocket and watch him cross the street to the grocery store on the corner.

Out of the blue=unexpectedly

精彩句子：

They look at me, laughs dying on their lips when they see me, ice cream cones at odd angles.

Guiding questions

1. What did Justin feel when he was Olivia’s family? Why?

He liked staying with Olivia’s family. Olivia’s parents couldn’t be nicer the first moment they saw him. In their family, they said “I love you” all the time and were truly concerned about each other. In August’s family, his parents got divorced, having no time to care about him.

2. What purpose, do you think, does the writer use the ladybug to show?

Ladybug stands for good luck. When you see a ladybug you can make a wish on it.

3. Why did Via cry so fiercely?

She doesn’t want her new friends in high school to know about her little brother and she doesn’t know why she minds it now. It makes her feel shame and guilty.